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Buckshot Introduces The Latest Shoes From His Sneaker Line & Talks Ownership In Business
Dec 9, 2022
The legend, Buckshot of Duckdown Records stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about his new sneaker line!
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What's up, y'all?
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Hey, hey, HEY, IT'S BUCK SHOT.
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FOR 2 SECONDS. I'm only here for 2
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seconds.
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to come back, don't worry.
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One and two.
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Okay.
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So, what I came to give you
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the official
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the the the Hip Hop Series, the official
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Duck Down
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sneakers.
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How did those match your pants? Look at
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this.
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Didn't I tell you he was coming to bring
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you sneakers?
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These are sick. Okay, these sneakers are
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called
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Those are all hard.
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These These are the T3
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Hip Hop Series. These are the Duck Down
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editions right here, everybody.
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We were just talking about sneakers.
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So, so, so, so, shout out to my brother
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who who who's doing his thing in the Hip
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Hop game with the sneakers.
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that up because this is important. How
0:42
long you been putting out sneakers?
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I've been putting out sneakers since
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2014.
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2014.
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Yes, and I came on your show a long time
0:50
ago and I came to shout out this sneaker
0:53
company and I came to do that and
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you know, came to shout out everybody
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that was in the in the movement. So, so,
1:01
now we back.
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These are awesome.
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I started in 2014. So, now we back.
1:05
That's when you released, but you
1:06
started sooner than that.
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Yes.
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You started your research and getting
1:10
your network together was 2012.
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2012.
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Mhm. We spoke about this.
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Yeah.
1:15
Turn that down for a second. 2012. So,
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Buck Shot been building on sneakers
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I love it.
1:21
on his own, though. It's different.
1:23
Where where 50 had Reebok, right?
1:25
Yeah.
1:26
Uh so did Jay-Z initially did the
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S.Carter
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S.Carter.
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with Reebok. What were you doing yours
1:32
with? Who were you doing yours with?
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I have a I have a manufacturing company
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in Korea and one in China called
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Shenzhen. And I manufacture the
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Bumblebees.
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Mhm.
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Manufacture
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the Fish and U Callies.
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Look at those. Hold them to the side.
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Have to hold those tall for us.
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the official Duck Down T3 that's coming
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out soon.
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Oh.
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Look at that.
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THESE ARE ALL DUCK DOWN sneakers that
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he's been working on since 2012. That he
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puts in the marketplace.
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100% hours.
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It's 100% his.
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Built.
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Manufacturing,
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marketing.
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Marketing, constructed, magic, magic,
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park, promoted, manufacturing, built,
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designed, architected, everything,
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licensed, everything strictly by your
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boy right here.
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So, I can do it.
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Hey, if I can do it, anybody got a team
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of designers. If I can do it, anybody
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could do it. This is I'm a manufacturer.
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So, I'm not just a sneaker. We have a
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manufacturing design company everyone.
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So, if you need manufacturing for your
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sneaker, don't buy the molds from Fung
2:40
Wong cuz they're going to fall apart and
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they all have the same thing. Come to
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me, I'll make you your own sneaker from
2:46
top to bottom. If you look at the bottom
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of these sneakers, they got microphones
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on the bottom.
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The word hip hop is right here.
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These are hip hop sneakers. This is what
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hip hop represents. This right here is
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what hip hop
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And Torch and them trying. You should
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have saw Heather and Torch trying to
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break their neck to get a drop.
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Facts. Public Enemy deserves to be
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Oh my
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gosh. That's Public Enemy sneaker.
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That's a beautiful sneaker, bro.
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Look at this [ __ ] Public Enemy.
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Public Enemy This is This is quality.
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This is how you support and give back to
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hip hop. The brothers have been doing
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this since 2012. I came out in 2014, I
3:23
released those sneakers. Shout out to my
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brothers who did their thing after, but
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I want to tell everybody that once
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again, I'm just here to let y'all know
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that as a manufacturer,
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if you need me, I'm here to make your
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sneaker for you, brothers.
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That's dope. And sisters.
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And sisters.
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Brothers and sisters.
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UPG stand for?
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Unified Purpose Global. Yes, your boy is
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one of the first young black males to do
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two things. One, to build a metaverse
3:51
with my brothers and to be involved in
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the first space moon project that's
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bringing music
3:59
to the actual physical moon project.
4:02
What does that mean right there? That
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part right there?
4:04
please?
4:04
Black Moon is a part of Capella Space
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program, which is bringing music and
4:12
what they call NFTs to the moon,
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literally.
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Shout out to Lady Rocket. I love you,
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Eva. So, you see me, say hi to you on
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here. What's up, Grant? What's up,
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everybody? Everybody involved in the
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whole space project. What's going on? I
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connected with them just cuz of the name
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Black Moon, literally.
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Yeah. And then and then it worked. She's
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Yeah. You You This man had his You have
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your own communications.
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That's right.
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Right?
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That's right. My own tech company, my
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own mobile company, uh my own
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He was
4:41
like doing mobile companies in Africa.
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Yeah. Shout out to all my brothers in
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Africa. Y'all see I had y'all. I'm still
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doing the Buck Shot Mobile out there.
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Yeah, I have no They call me Business
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Buck. That's why I do so many
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businesses. I still have my label, Duck
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Down Records.
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Well, you know Duck Down, Smith &
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Wesson, Tech. What up, brother? I love
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you. OGC, come on, man. I love y'all.
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Thank you to you, though, brother,
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because you see even with this time and
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moving crazy and I'm doing 20,000
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businesses right now. It's crazy. But
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for you to give my your your minutes as
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my brother, I want to say to everybody
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on this air, this is my brother right
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here. This is my brother and this is my
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sister. And these people put their time
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and their energy into giving me that
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without no bureaucracy. That is very,
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very, very important because at the end
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of the day, what that shows is that they
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work with Sirius Satellite Radio. And
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Sirius Satellite gives them the respect
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to make the moves and gives them the
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respect to put that authority into
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effect. Very, very, very important cuz
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there's a lot of people who cannot do
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those things. And these two people have
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earned a spot in hip-hop for so long
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that they have that power. You got to
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respect it.
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That'll be a sweeper.
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Yo, we going to make that into a
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sweeper.
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Thank you, my bro.
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We going to play that every day.
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Yo, thank you. Thank Thank you for
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having me just even stop through and
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show the people that once again, you
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know, to clarify the whole thing is
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that, you know, people are doing
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sneakers right now because of the whole
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issue and everybody know that corporate
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has came down on the community for not
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being able to do what they want us to
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do. And it's very important for me
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because, you know, I'm not at the level
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of, like you said before, Only 8, you
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know, level or Jay-Z or some of those
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guys. I'm a person who has an
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independent project, independent label,
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and because of that you take pride you
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take, you know, slack. In the sense of
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I'm not under someone else, right?
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Yeah.
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So, because of that, I have to make my
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own moves. And for me to make my own
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moves and be in a spot where the actual
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majors is at for like people like Jay-Z,
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the biggest thing was for not because he
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put me in this position, but he didn't
6:55
have to do that. For Eminem
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Who?
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to get on the Rock & Roll Hip Hop Hall
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of Fame
7:02
Mhm.
7:03
and then say I couldn't do this without
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some of these MCs and say first Biggie,
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then say Black Moon
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and then say Buckshot.
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Mhm.
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That was deep.
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Mhm.
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Yeah.
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So, shout out to my brother for putting
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it down. You already know I love you
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from day one before record deals even
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came into effect. Yeah. Still got your
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back, brother.
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There you go, Buck, man. Love you,
7:25
brother, man. Come on, man. He
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personifies this culture.
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You see what I'm trying to say, you
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Ownership, proprietorship.
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is a community. Oh, let me say one last
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thing. Can I say one last thing?
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Absolutely.
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That's very, very important.
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Everybody out there all my artists, all
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my producers, you guys are going to have
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to put out projects from this point on.
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It's very limited to do those things
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when it comes to streaming and
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everything else.
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So, there's a new thing out. People call
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them NFTs.
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Yeah.
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They're just projects.
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And there's a big big place called
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OpenSea where everyone is going.
8:01
But they're not hip-hop cultural
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orientated.
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So, Duck Down
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became the first brand that's
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decentralized.
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What that mean?
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That mean that people no longer have to
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call up Buckshot or Drew Ha to put their
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projects
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in that space.
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in that space.
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They can
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What's it called? What's the space?
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duckdownnfts.com
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duckdownnfts.com.
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This is what we've been building on for
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about a year.
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That's right.
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Yes.
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So, now you guys could put your project
8:34
up on our platform for the public to
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judge to judge you and love you. The
8:39
days of the Buckshot sitting here going,
8:41
"Yeah, this is it." It's over. That's
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That's the old model because you are the
8:46
people and y'all make the decisions. I
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just follow what y'all say.
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There you go. This is my brother
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Buckshot. Y'all want to talk to him. He
8:53
also got the new EP I Am the Boss that's
8:56
out now. We going to play Hey, that's
8:58
how we going to end the show. Next time
8:59
you come, I do want to ask you about
9:00
that Daddy song. I've never
9:02
Oh, shout out to my Shout out to my
9:04
daddy. Everybody know about dear mama.
9:06
Uh-huh.
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We love our mamas.
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Of course.
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But we also love our daddies.
9:11
So, I had to do a song dedicated to my
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daddy because he gave birth to me number
9:15
one along with my mother and he passed
9:16
away in '96 the same year my brother Pac
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Pac passed. So, I wanted to give respect
9:21
to both of them. One Nation for Pac and
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Dear Daddy for my dad.
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Both songs on the project. It's called I
9:28
Am the Boss. He got a song called Hey
9:30
produced by
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DJ Evil Dee
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of the Producer crew, beat-miners
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with alongside of
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Mr. WALT
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COME ON, GET IT ON.
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NOT GOING TO DEVIATE FROM THE
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ORIGINATION, BABY.
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COME ON, I'm a
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From from the days into THE STAGE
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I'VE GOT TO GIVE YOU THAT BOOM BAP IN
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OH, THAT'S THE ORIGINALS.
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HEY, if there's a lot of people that's
9:54
out there doing their thing, shout out
9:55
to y'all with your beats, but hey, I got
9:57
to be the last one to give you a boom
9:59
bap option, right?
10:00
Yes.
10:01
Thank you very much for having me,
10:02
brother. Thank you for giving me your
10:04
minutes, your time, your energy. Shout
10:06
out to everybody. Shout out to you,
10:08
Heather, one of the dopest female MCs
10:10
out there.
10:11
Yo, yo.
10:11
Thank you so much for putting down
10:13
your voice on um
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What? You know what? Let me tell you
10:16
something. Me and Evil D always talk
10:18
about that. And thank you. No, thank you
10:20
for being a dope female MC.
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Thank you. I appreciate that.
10:24
Where y'all at, ladies? Come on.
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They here. It's You know the game. They
10:28
out there.
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Ladies
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I know the ones that's here, BUT I WANT
10:32
more ladies to come to the table. And
10:34
that's why we had duckdownnfts.com.
10:37
I don't I want y'all to come.
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